From E. A. Darwin 10 April [1866]1
10 April—
Dear Charles
A man has sent to offer me “two most beautiful autographic Proof impressions of the portrait of C D Esq by Maguire” 7/6
What are they?2
I was sorry to hear of your heap of maladies & I suppose I shant see you till I dont know when3
E D
Georgina4 wished me to ask you to bring with you the Quarterly Journal of Science with the Review upon yourself—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Calendar: A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5053
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B42–3
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5053,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5053.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14